Internet
Traffic
Traffic on the Internet has doubled
every 100 days.
In 1994,
a mere 3 million
people were connected to the Internet.
By the end of 1997,
more than 100 million
were using it.
The Internet is growing faster than
all other
technologies
that have preceded it.
Radio
existed for 38
years before it had 50
million listeners,
and television
took 13 years
to reach that mark.
The Internet
crossed the line in just four
years.
Internet Commerce
Internet commerce and business will likely surpass US$300 billion by 2002.
Using credit cards, 10 million people in the United States and Canada had purchased something on the WWW by the end of 1997, an increase from 4.7 million people six months earlier.
Source: The Emerging Digital Economy,
April 1998 report of the United States Department
of Commerce.
The following high-definition computer animation images educate general audiences about the exponential growth of networking in the US and world. A data visualization spanning a two-year period represents rapid traffic growth that exceeds ten's of billions of bytes per day. The following images have been reproduced from Visualization Study of the NSFNET by Donna Cox and Robert Patterson (NCSA)with the sole purpose of academic discussion, evaluation, research and in compliance with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.